Sales rep Corey Price, showed me around the dealership — built on the site of a former nightclub, the flatbed mounted the old showpiece of a 1955 International show here in the main lobby of the building being the former performance stage.

Attendant to the event was also an antique-truck and other vehicle show, with among other things the 1978 International Bookmobile that also serves as a International memorabilia museum of sorts (the step van lookalike painted in classic IH colors in the picture at top), a large contingent of International Scout sport utility vehicles, which International commonly built with Nissan diesel power through the year 1980. East and Middle Tennessee Scout owners’ associations were on hand to show off their gems, among other things. Find a full gallery of photos from the day at the bottom of the post, as well as few items of note here.

This 2014 International Prostar+ daycab with a 500-hp Cummins engine featuring SCR emissions technology was bought through Landmark Cookeville by the Robert W. Agee fuel-hauling fleet, part of an uptick in sales at the location Price reports as results following the addition of the Cummins power option by International in the past year. In addition to trucks, Landmark International offers Fontaine, Vanguard, Rogers and other trailers.

Agee’s Sparta, Tenn., fleet put the truck together with Alabama Crimson Tide colors and graphics to complement a University of Tennessee Vols rigs already running under their authority, Price added, perhaps on the way toward covering the entire SEC someday.

The sizable service bays at the Cookeville Landmark locations can accommodate six tractors comfortably — the service building was added to the original building when the dealer moved from its former location several years ago.

After a tour through the dealership and truck show, Price showed me this gem, a personal future project of Andy Jablonski, the Landmark VP who heads up the operations at this location. It’s a late 1950s International camper he’s hoping to make a full restoration project of.

A classic view, from the driver’s seat of the camper — notice that shag carpeting? It extended all through the camper body of the vehicle, well preserved…

Todd Dills

Todd Dills is Senior Editor of Overdrive magazine and writes from Nashville, Tenn. He frequently covers business, regulatory and lifestyle topics for the magazine and at OverdriveOnline.com. His work on the “CSA’s Data Trail” series in Overdrive about the federal CSA program was awarded the highest honor in trade journalism – the “Grand Neal” – by American Business Media at the 2014 Jesse H. Neal Awards. Dills’ Channel 19 blog covers a grab bag of on-highway hearsay, owner-operator news and driver views from the roadways the nation over. His work in trucking journalism builds on a background of news feature, fiction and other creative writing and editing. Find him here at the Channel 19 blog and via his Twitter feed, or send tips to tdills@randallreilly.com or via phone at 205-907-2481.